Comment by harimau777

There's lots of ways that this could be done.

A franchise could only become open for unauthorized developers once it has made a certain inflation adjusted revenue, or once a franchise has works created by more than a certain number of artists.

Or these changes could simply only apply to corporations. So individuals could own franchise IP but corporations could not. Or corporations would be required to compensate the original creator but independent artists would not.

It's not necessary to make a perfect system. Just one that is better than our current dysfunctional system where corporations own most of our culture.